IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214990 accession number: P.14413-R-L4 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Loose inside album P.14413-R, inside the back fly leaf. A home-made valentine comprising a small white cameo-embossed lace-paper 'front' affixed to the centre of a 'back' piece of larger white lace-paper of a different style and design which is mounted onto a larger sheet of blue wove paper. The spine of the lace-paper 'front' is still attached along the left edge and a scene at lower centre features a couple moving from a windmill at the left towards a church on the right. A central oval window is backed with a rectangular chromolithograph of a drinking fountain decorated with swags, flowers and white doves. On the verso of the chromolithograph is an oval medallion of white wove paper with lace-paper edge stamped 'MEEK' at upper centre. This paper is mounted with a circular disc of white wove paper with a scalloped edge and printed motto: 'A / LOVER'S / OFFERING.', below which is affixed a fake gold wedding ring. A length of purple ribbon is attached to the inside of the lace-paper 'front'. At the centre of the larger 'back' piece of lace-paper is a small, circular window with scalloped edge into which is inserted a disc of yellow paper with letterpress verse: 'MEMORY / At midnight hour I love / to think / On those most dear, most far from me; / And memory often at that hour / Would gladly wing its flight to / thee. ...'. A scrap of flowers and motto: 'TO ONE I LOVE' is affixed at lower centre. title: Valentine card LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214990 TECHNIQUES ---------- chromolithography TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1860 - 1880 creation date earliest: 1860 creation date latest: 1880 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Meek, George IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14413_R_L4_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 859 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14413_R_L4_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 596 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14413_R_L4_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 859 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14413_R_L4_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 298 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14413_R_L4_2_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 941 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14413_R_L4_2_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 459 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14413_R_L4_2_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 941 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14413_R_L4_2_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 230 pixels width: 250 pixels